A problem set explores how an international crisis could affect the economic health of Canada using authentic materials from College Board. Other questions ask learners to create and evaluate supply and demand curves and examine factors in production. 

Concepts

supply and demand, banking, macroeconomics, test preparation, financial crises, international trade, comparative advantage, factors of production

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the case studies to create a group activity for your classes
• Offer problems as part of a review for the AP® exam

Classroom Considerations

• Resource provides the free-response questions from the 2004 AP® Macroeconomics exam
  

Pros

• Easy to adapt the materials to different lesson plans
• Rubrics and guidelines make scoring simple, improving the quality of feedback before the actual exam
  

Cons

• None

Common Core

RH.6-8.2 RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.2 RH.9-10.3 RH.9-10.10 RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.3 RH.11-12.10